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2012-07-22, 11:42 | Link #402 |
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This show deserve more popularity, really!
The peace is good. It has a good balance between Slice of life and drama. The creative usage of "Body switch" plot. Yui and Taichi scene in ep.3 is one of best scene I have seen in this season. I actually own the novel but I don't have a time to read it. There are too many interesting light novels in these days...I bought them a lot but almost have no time to read them LOL. So, I will stick with anime version for now. Can someone tell me how far is the story compared to novel? Are we almost finish vol.1???
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2012-07-22, 12:14 | Link #403 | |
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2012-07-22, 12:27 | Link #404 | |
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Totally agree on your Wien's description, nothing more to add.
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2012-07-22, 13:16 | Link #406 |
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Well I just crunched through the first 3 episodes.
REALLY interesting plot, really interesting characters. Good animation, good voices (IWASAWA-SAMA!). Kudos to the people behind this. I'll be seeing this through to the end. Cheers Arturia
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2012-07-22, 14:33 | Link #408 |
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Taichi said he had never thought of Iori "that way." Yui said she didn't fear Taichi because he was Taichi (and therefore not threatening or exciting, I inferred).
So I think Taichi and Inaba may well end up together. They are kind of similar, serious about helping other people, and willing to go against their own desires (Inaba pushing him toward Iori when she semi-unconsciously likes him herself). Aoki seems like a nonentity, but at least he is serious toward Yui, and trying to do the right thing. He's not anywhere near as bad as many silly sidekick characters. Maybe she will warm to him once she gets a chance to kick him in the nuts, lol. I like all the female characters. Inaba of course. Yui for this episode. But Iori is pretty fascinating, too. Her sudden switch to smiling agreement when her mother told her (she was getting remarried?) was chilling and sad. She holds herself under strict control, to avoid heartache. There was something both charmingly humorous and also a bit ominous about her talking about charging for a peek. I loved the highly dangerous cliffhanger at the end. I'm guessing Inaba has lost her consciousness without getting anyone else's in return. Humour. Yes, it's there. But it is not the kind of humour you laugh at, more the kind that gives you a painful and ironic smile. Kicking in the nuts: painful. Filmed confessions: awkward. Not happy humour, but still humour of a kind. Not as hilarious as Ebiten...but let's not go there, lol. Senses of humour differ. In any case, I find this a show where any humour there may be is just there to help keep us from crying. I had hopes for this show before the season started, and it is fulfilling them.
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2012-07-22, 14:47 | Link #409 |
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I don't see how Taichi's selflessness is such a problem tbh. It's not like he's been overly active in his pursuit of selflessness. He only seems to deal with the problems that he happens to notice so I'd say he's been mostly passive about it.
The only problem I can see arising is if there is a deeper problem with him that's the cause of his selflessness and it's not like that necessarily has to be the case. I suppose there is the possibility that his selflessness is giving him a too narrow or inappropriate viewpoint to deal with certain and important situations and may even be doing more harm than good, but I can't yet think of any convoluted situation like that. And like above that doesn't necessarily have to be the case either so it's not an inherent flaw in his selflessness. If anything it's his denseness that's most likely the issue. I don't see how that's linked to his selflessness though I guess the story has been hinting at it.
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2012-07-22, 16:18 | Link #410 |
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Maybe I've seen too much House but when a guy kicks himself as hard as possible in the nuts just to help someone else I think by that point you have a problem. And I do hope it is a problem because honestly it's kind of boring that it's only the girls that's having emotional problems while the guys seem perfectly normal.
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2012-07-22, 16:58 | Link #414 | |
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I just re-watched the episode and I was a bit too harsh to Aoki. And the fake confession was a great idea and I bet it was Aoki's Inaba reaction was really sharp anyways
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About Taichi selflessness I don't know if it will be a problem or his main problem. A hypothesis is that he will follow, willingly or unwillingly, Inaba's designed path to Iori due to his selflessness alone, despite what he really want is somewhere else. A bit predictable. But it depend on how much Inaba is reliable on her judgment about Iori's weakness. I was taking it for granted (inaba reliability), even if she admitted she could be wrong on the bodyswitching bad effects. The way Iori has been shown so far should confirm that, but I'm not so sure now. Iori could be the strong one and Inaba the "weak". Because from another perspective Inaba statements on Iori weakness and taichi freakness fit quite well her character, too. Like she was mirroring her weakness on them. Well, anyways whoever will be the stronger or the weaker I'm enjoying the ride and it's a good sign.
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2012-07-22, 17:33 | Link #416 |
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I don't mind a character being selfless, but not to the extent that they remind me of a Da Capo protagonist. Even if I did ignore the fact that it's only the females who have problems, they still have more well-rounded personalities. Taichi seems more like a plot device than an actual character.
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2012-07-22, 17:37 | Link #417 | |
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This is different from Iori. Iori has a mask, and underneath there is turmoil. Men (in general) are more likely to have turmoil in one compartment of their life, but in others are fine- not just on the surface but all the way down. On the one hand this might appear to be a strength that allows men to deal with emotional crap more easily. On the other hand, remember how compartmentalizing worked for the Titantic? When men crack up it tends to be pretty catastrophic. My guess on Taichi's problem: Taichi is self-sacrificing, and this serves him very well in all aspects of his life save one. His love life. I think the hints are already there that Taichi has difficultly in his love life because he is so selfless. The hints are actually in the first episode that he's in a little unspoken love triangle with Inaba and Iori (remember who they asked to choose which one he'd prefer naked). It's also clear that in their class they are often together and form a "threesome" of friends. Comments on his love life are also the only things we've seen so far to get a rise out of him. But why does Taichi care for Inaba and Iori? Is it because Iori needs him? Is it because Inaba needs him? It's pretty clear that both of them are actually the more emotionally fragile girls. Underneath her exterior, Yui is pretty strong emotionally, just traumatized. If both of them need him, how can Taichi choose one of them? (Hence his answer: "both"). And can Taichi even differentiate between his own personal desires and his white knight persona? How can Taichi choose? How will his choice know whether he choose her because he prefers her or because he judged her to have the greater need? All those love life problems that it looks like he, Inaba, and Iori had put on the backburner are now starting to spread into other parts of his life (thanks to the mind swapping). That's my bet for Taichi. It's a little early of course to be sure, so don't hold me too it, but everyone seems impatient to identify the boys' issues, so I'll put Taichi down for that. (Most likely to be resolved after Inaba's and Iori's issues). Aoki's the real cipher here. Who knows what his issue is. He seems like a normal nice boy, just a little pervy, about normal maturity level for his age (not much), and in love with a girl who has issues. Maybe his problem will simply be a love story between him and Yui, all about Aoki becoming the kind of guy who deserves Yui and can provide her what she needs. Right now I'd be betting that he's the final one to get resolved.
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2012-07-22, 18:34 | Link #418 | |
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2012-07-22, 18:52 | Link #419 | |
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I don't think that his selflessness, per se, is a problem. I mean, it's not a problem that he wants to play "white knight", and is willing to make some sacrifices for others. But I don't know if he cares enough about just his basic well-being. The fact that he's a serious pro wrestling fan adds an interesting wrinkle here. A lot of pro wrestlers absolutely destroy their bodies in attempts to be as entertaining as possible for the fans (Mick Foley is a particularly notable example of this). Imagine a scenario where Taichi really puts his body on the line to save another person, and while he's doing so... body-switch. It could be very interesting, and have quite a dramatic fallout. Also, I like Sackett's idea about a potential Inaba/Taichi/Iori love triangle. The hints are there. You could even interpret Inaba's actions as her ironically being selfless - Her pushing Taichi towards Iori as Inaba doesn't want to cause any pain for her friend Iori.
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